Shelby County High School and one of its students were among 32 Kentucky schools and one from Indiana who won awards in the annual statewide high school journalism contest sponsored by the Kentucky High School Journalism Association, based in Frankfort.

Shelby County High School received second place in broadcast documentary and second place in yearbook cover design. Matt Smith won first place in sports writing.

The contest recognizes high school journalists participating in high school newspapers, yearbooks and broadcast programs.

Lana Barnett received a certificate of data entry operator from Jefferson County Community College, Shelby Campus. She is a survivor of a traumatic brain injury from a 4-wheeler accident in 2004. She graduated from Shelby County High School.

Cornerstone had the annual student fundraiser, a Read-A-Thon. Students collect pledges and sponsors for the number of pages they read during the event. Overall 165 student readers log more than 122,000 pages and earn a total of $9,200 for the school. The top readers from preschool K3 through fifth grade won a limo ride to Dairy Queen. The winners were (from left) Alexis Kuhn, Caitlin Kuhn, Duncan Barbour, Haisley Shepherd, Marissa Weaver, Opal Best, Zoe Maxwell, Tyler Fisher and Ashley Haymond.

Natalie Ernst, (from left) Gabriel Smith and Isaak Lloyd work on writing vocabulary words that describe the parts of a plant. Flower. Leaf. Stem. Root. They are students in Brittany Biermann’s preschool class at Painted Stone Elementary.

Shelby County High School boasted that three of its graduating seniors had earned the Eagle Scout Award from the Lincoln Heritage Council of the Boy Scouts of America. They were (from left, at an Eagle Scout ceremony) Austin Blocker, Nathan Hayes and Patrick Hargadon. All three of these scouts came up the ranks in some of the same troops and completed Eagle Scout requirements while in Troop 470 in Simpsonville.